[P&P] - What Are You Working On? 2009 Edition!

So the boards don't get too crippled from such a massive single thread, I thought now would be the good time to kick things off fresh for 2009!

Happy new year everyone!

There has been SO much great work in the 2008 thread, I'm eager to see how things turn out for this year.

I'm not going to kick it off or anything besides starting the thread, I'll let someone else post pics Admin. ninja edit: Check out the What Are You Working ON? 2008 thread to see all the great works-in-progress from last year. 5,143 replies & WIPs posted!

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Have been working on this for the GameArtisans sackboy competition. There were some amazing entries in this comp. I am still finishing this guy up, he doesn't even have normals yet, I need to work on the contrast levels of the wool on the actual sackman, etc.

i don't post much here, but i figured i might as well start. so here is an animation i've been working on. nothing too crazy. and i'm somewhat new to animation, new as in hardly ever do it. but i'm trying to get into it more.

I rather like it Havok, but I'm not sure if this is a base mesh for sculpting or the lowpoly itself - if it is the latter you might look into the toes and mid forearm, unless of course their squareness is a stylistic choice. Camel toes would be cool!

CIgano - Thanks, dude, but no, I have no concept. I am just modeling whatever pops into my head.

pestibug - Thanks, I was actually thinking of splitting his feet into 2 longer toes. The reason they are humanoid is because I modeled them before I designed the head, so they definately will not stay that way.

Vrav - Yea, this is the lowpoly itself, but I like the way the forearms are, so I probably wont do more than bring the wrist loop up a bit. Thanks for your input though

New year, new thread! This one is now the sticky.
The WAYWO 2008 thread is closed for new posts and un-stickied (but of course still exists!).

Why not keep the WAYWO 2008 thread stickied so that it remains up top for easy viewing regardless of it being locked out. If it is un-stickied and goes back into the general population post it will just be pushed down into oblivion to never be seen again. It'd be nice to have it kinda in one fixed place for archiving to kind of maintain a history of the year that was. Just a thought.

I am currently working on a project of mine that I had a while ago that I had drawn an outline, a scene setup, dozens of models/props and a back story to the in first month I had gotten into 3D work. I was very ambitious, but inexperienced so I had dropped the project as I could hardly model anything!

Though it was on a bookshelf, It didn't mean I had completely forgotten it. Unoccupied, and needing a fun project that is challenging enough so I could grow as a modeler/texture artist/render"er"/scene compositer, I have just begin to model said models/props and have decided I shall finish the project no matter the size (which is huge, IMO), and with time to spare. The projected goal is 2-3 months.

So far I have made little progress, but I have already learned how to create an environment with a displacement map, AND how to create/apply Bump and Specular maps, and how to create Heightmaps. All in a day.

Environment:
(I know the lighting is unnecessary but I was just experimenting with the settings for Bump and Specular, and decided "hey, this looks cool".)

Character models:

Props:
(Although this pillar looks like it belongs in the medieval era, and my project is set in the distant future, the planet and the scene I will be rendering out is inside the ruins of an old extinct race that didn't make it past stones and swords.)

Alright, still very much wip, ignore the stuff on the chest/stomach for now, that's just trying out some ideas. I'll make a thread for this guy, but for now I'll introduce him in this lovely new 2009 thread!

Did some more work on this, just playing with ideas at the moment. Is it working or not?
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Also, thanks to everyone who commented on this in the other thread.

Hey Havok, I really like what you're doing.
I'm not sure of your workflow so maybe you'll get to this later, but it looks like if you flip the triangulation on your forearms it'll probably shade a lot smoother. But then maybe it's deliberate and will make sense with the texture.
(Photoshopped the arm on the right to guestimate what it'll look like flipped)
Also the toes might be higher detail than needed when compared to the lower poly forearms.
I'm really digging the look of it, nice work!

Eraserhead: That's awesome. I have a friend who has been bugging me to model one. It'd be pretty redundant now. Fully rigged and animatable?

@Blenderhead nice job. I think that his cut horns might look better if they were the same material as his large hand and bursting out of the sack knitting a little maybe.

Also you could perhaps cap them with metal roughed up bottlecaps? is that what you are trying to do?

Edit: also the brown hips dont read well. I think that your red backdrop is competing with the readability of your character a little as well. Especially in the brown hips i guess.

Thanks! I was going for a 'patchwork' effect on the horns but I might use a bottlecap for one of them! Thanks! Yeah the backdrop conflicts with everything, especially the leather pants. I'll work on your crits for sure thanks!

Thanks alot Kizza. I had that twist for a reason but I triangulated it anyways and it does smooth alot better so I may keep it like that. Thanks again.

Another update. Re-did the feet like everyone wanted and also added a blanket thing to his back and made the goggles bigger. Not really sure if I should cover his pelvis or not. Tell me what you think.

That dumpster is sick Ebola. Great stuff so far guys, here's a few things I've been working on.

Testing some modular stuff ^

zbrush detail sculpt that I just did on the head of a character I modeled last semester. not liking the way the low poly looks with the normal applied, would retopologizing and making a new low poly from this mesh be the best route?

for the same comp as blenderhead's, i just forgot to submit my entry

None of these are shown in realtime @ the moment because DirectX shaders don't show up in my viewport on my laptop. Booooo

@Ged: That's really cool looking @Leviathan: What mod is that for? That's lookin mighty high for hl1, assuming that the face is gonna be attached to a body of similar detail . . . and not that he's a disembodied floating head. Like in power rangers, or something. I'm tired@Marine: He reminds of cyborg, from Teen Titans. It looks nice, and the materials pretty cool too

Still lots to fix- size changes to some of the objects/ chains, and detailing to the leather/ pads etc but that will be done in Photoshop as ZBRUSH is really starting to struggle with these guys on my home computer!